From left to right sit E.C. Carney, W.H. Shemorry, and possibly F.P. Bergman and William O. "Dad" Hollar" in the office of E.C. Carney & Co. Loans, Land Insurance. Bergman and Hollar are reading newspapers, and Shemorry and Carney appear to be...

View of the Louisiana Land & Exploration No. 1 Burdick 21-29, NE NW 29-154-100, an oil well in Stony Creek Township near Williston, N.D. The Louisiana Land & Exploration No. 1 Burdick 21-29 is a Madison zone producer, and is located in what has...

"Meal time for U.S. soldiers in Burma. Taking time out from their fighting and road building in nothern Burma, a company of U.S. soldiers loads its mess kits with food at a jungle camp. American and Chinese troops under Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell have...

A view of the Shemorry Motor Co. or Shemorry Auto Parts Co. business card. William H. Shemorry (Bill's father) started the Shemorry Motor Company with his son John J. Shemorry in early spring, 1925. Shemorry bought the real estate and land office...

Many early Williston businesses are visible in this early photograph of Main Street, taken before the street was paved. Business signs visible include: G.M. Thomas Furniture and Undertaking, Williston Land Co., The Boston Store, The Fair Store, a...

The 200 block on Williston's Main Street looked like this in 1919. The Metropolitan Bank now stands where the large building shows in the top photo. The Grand Theatre has taken the place of Monsch Land Co.

"Joseph W. 'Bud' Jackson was an early settler in the Williston area... Jackson spent most of his first two years on the OH Ranch in McKenzie County, learning the ranching business from foreman Lem Burns and Others. After this he settled on Nesson...

The teacher and students of School 3, District 37 of Williams county appear in the John Brekke photo taken in 1908. Left to right are Anna Bergeron, Teacher Eva McCoy, Elizabeth Coty, Josephine Murphy, Loretta Dunn, Minnie Witsoe, Anna Dordal,...

A view of a lake set in among a range of mountains in rural China, with terraced slopes and forests around the water's edge. Taken while Bill Shemorry was in the 164th Signal Photo Company as a combat photographer during World War II.

Aerial view looking out over a five person tension free skydiving team during a jump. Below farms, land and trees are visible and mountains can be seen in the distance. A "Tension-Free" Skydiving team performed in the air show at 4pm at the...

During Williston's emerging days, irrigation was thought to be a panacea for the farmers and a great effort was made to organize it under a new law passed by Congress. OUt of this grew the Williston Irrigation District encompassing about 15,000...

"Critchell Parsons, president of the Tioga Petroleum Corporation, right, chats with Clarence Iverson, owner of the land on which the original Williston Basin discovery well was drilled. The meeting took place one Saturday morning in 1952 at the...

Group portrait of thirteen girls wearing basketball uniforms in the Williston gymnasium with a Coyote Land sign in the background. This is the 1975-76 state championship girl's basketball team. Starting at the left: Kristi Carrier, Alicia Fee,...

A distant view of the second day of the Fort Union Celebration activities. Hundreds of automobiles are parked in a field, and groups of people are scattered around the parking area. A tent in the center of the photograph may house concessions for...

A distant view of the second day of the Fort Union Celebration activities. Hundreds of automobiles are parked in a field, and groups of people are scattered around the parking area. A tent in the center of the photograph may house concessions for...

A man in the foreground of the photograph may be taking a photograph. People surround a stage, which is being set up. A man on top of the roof of the stage is hoisting an American flag. Many tipis are visible behind the stage area, and people are...

Thousands of people observe a ceremony which is part of the Fort Union Celebration. A band is playing in the middle of the crowd, beneath two large American flags. A large pole is raised in the middle of the crowd. In the foreground of the...

The boy’s basketball team from Epping, N.D. versus the Watford City Wolves. Epping player 24 tries to block a basket being put up by a Wolves player. A banner for Williston Coyote Land is visible in the background.

Crowds bustle up the dirt road in the business district of Williston on Main Street. The old frame county courthouse (second building from right) had a second life beginning in 1899 when it was moved to Main Street. Through two decades, it was the...

Erich Kather was a young man in 1911 when he had an opportunity to take a ride in an airplane... he responded quickly and thus became the very first to fly as a passenger out of Williston. At that time he was a young pharmacist, who had...

In Alexander, Robert Norheim was the first attorney, as well as serving as a community leader and a man of distinction. Arriving in the United States from Norway at the age of 16, he first settled in Iowa, later managed a general store in Dalton,...